Niagara County GOP chair: 'It's time to review county ethics and disclosure policy'

by jmaloni

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Thu, Jun 12th 2014 04:50 pm

Niagara
County Republican Chairman Scott Kiedrowski said this week it is time for the
County Legislature to review its ethics and disclosure policies with the goal
of increasing public transparency and accountability.

"The
current policy was drafted nearly two decades ago," Kiedrowski said. "The policy
has served its purpose, but the expectations of what should be made available
to the public are much different today than they were 20 years ago. "

Kiedrowski
said, in the age of sunshine, the public needs to feel confident elected
officials and those serving as appointees on public boards are acting in the
public interest and do not have conflicts of interest.

He
said he was reaching out the County Legislature's leadership to discuss a
process for updating the ethics and disclosure policy, and believed changes
could be made in fairly short order to take effect with future ethics and
disclosure filings.